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(No Model.)

J. H. PARTRIDGE.

APPARATUS FOR USE IN DRAWING FBBME'NTED LIQUIDS PROM GASKS.

No. 309,561. A Patented Dec. 23, 1884.

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ATTORNEY.

UNTTED s' rarns PATENT tries,

JOHN H. P-AltTl-EIDGE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

APPARATUS FOR USE IN DRAWING FERMENTED LIQUIDS FROM CASKS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,561, dated December 23, 12884:.

iip dication filed April 4, 188-1. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. PARTRIDUE, of Kansas City, Jackson county, Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Apparatus for Use in Drawing Fermented Liquids i'roni Oasks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an apparatus for preventing the aeration of liquids in the process of withdrawing them from kegs or other vessels; and it consists of a metal tube having suitable diameter, and provided with a tapering bung-nozzle into which a packing-plug, also tapered and fixed upon a tube of smaller diameter, that is termed the inductiontube, is adapted to be placed, and form an airjoint therewith. The inductiontube has fixed to one extremity an expansible rubber bag or similar instrument, the operation of which will hereinafter be more fully explained.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which. similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 shows the apparatus in a sectioned elevation, and Fig. 2 is a section through a barrel of liquid having the apparatus applied I operation) is clear ofthe bung-hole, after which thereto.

Much inconvenience has heretofore attended the operation of drawing beer and wines from air-tight packages, for upon a quantity of the same being withdrawn from its cask the atmosphere enters and contaminates the whole.

In operation the screwed cap B is removed from the main tube 0 D, and the air-tube A jointed at 1?, and attached to the plug F at G and to the inflatable vessel K by means ofthe nipple G and its clamping-disks H H. The tubular bung E, which is screwed to the main tube-C D, is fixed within the bung opening of a keg or barrel, 0. Then the rubber bag K is folded into asufliciently sinall'package, and, by means of the beforc mentioned induction-tube A, is inserted down through the main tube, and forced therefrom into the liquid M, where it is inflated correspondingly as the liquid is withdrawn. Meanwhile the plug F has been forced to a tight point within the tapering bung E, and the entering atmosphere passes down the induction tube. The cap B serves, mainly, to hold the induction-tube in a rigid position. By attaching a funnel of suitable size to the upper end of tube A, or by asimilar arrangement, ice-water maybe used asthe inflating-fluid.

The arrows N N shown in the drawings indicate the direction in which the intlatingfluid enters the vessel.

The before-described inflatable vessel is preferably of such dimensions as to entirely fill the cask. The main tube should be constructed of a sulficient length to readily contain the beforementioned flexible vessel, so that when the apparatus is not in use the said tube answers the purpose of a shield for the said vessel, thereby preserving the latter for future utility, and from any injury that it might otherwise receive. For instance, after allof the liquid has been withdrawn from a barrel or keg, and it is not desired to apply the apparatus immediately to another, the main tube G D, together with the attached bung-piece 1: and the inductiontubc therein contained, are first su'fficiently loosened in the bung of the barrel, and then carefully withdrawn until the flexible vessel (which obviously becomes disinflated by the the said vessel is, by means of the inductiontube, drawn within the main tube, where, as before mentioned, it will be secure from the ravages of insects and vermin.

The function of the cap B consists in guiding the outer end of the induction-tube A and in excluding insects from the interior of the main tube; but it is obvious thatits form may be greatly altered without changing the purposes for which it is intended, or its services may be dispensed with altogether. The opening through its center, through which passes the induction-tube, may, if desired, be provided with a packing-chamber, or it may be enlarged; but preferably, as shown, such opening has a diameter corresponding to the size of the said tube.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In the apparatus described, the combination of the main tube 0 D, the bung-piece E, the cap 13, and the induction-tube A, there D, ofthe induction-tube A, the plug F, and the in contained, substantially as and for the purflexible vessel K, substantially as described. r0 poses set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 2. In combination with an airtight vessel of presence of two witnesses.

5 liquid, the main tube 0 D, and the induction- JOHN H. PARTRIDGE.

tube A, jointed at I, and having fixed there- \Vitnesses: on the plug F, substantially as described. F. J. BAIRD,

3. The combination with the main tube 0 HAL. O. 

